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Lee Yong-Baek - Angel Soldier (2011)
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Wide-field image of the southern Milky Way. On the right is the constellation of Orion, on the left, Carina, the Keel, where NGC 2808 is located.
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A. Fujii
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"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
— Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via ceedling)
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if u think my constant vocal feminism is annoying imagine how annoying the patriarchy is to me
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In its four years exploring the depths of space, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found 132 potentially habitable planets and another 2,740 candidates. Marcelo Gleiser writes about astronomy’s journey from philosophical to scientific and the consequence of new discovery:
“Of course, if other Earths existed, the centrality of ours would be threatened. This was, and remains, an essential question in the debate on the plurality of worlds: are we unique and hence important in some sense, or are we the norm and typical of what’s out there across the vastness of space?”
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